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shows that out of 1 ,200 acres of land in England, only 

 a little over one hundred acres was in wheat; two 

 hundred and fifty acres in turnips; (which is not so 

 exhausting as corn, and soon furnishes some pro- 

 tection to land;) and five hundred acres to grazing, 

 and that is such a sod of combination of grasses 

 as your eyes never rested on — in fact, Arthur 

 Young's "soul of management, repose under grass," 

 and in even that, six to seven hundred sheep only 

 were kept and fed on it, and two hundred and fifty 

 head of cattle turned off in a year. Your calcula- 

 tion, in reducing cattle to equality of sheep in keep, 

 makes 2,200 sheep ; that number of the right kind 

 of sheep on five hundred acres of such sod would 

 hardly make an impression — they would never see 

 the ground. On our Valley land, where Ave have not 

 the one-seventh of the number of grasses composing 

 our sod, or one-seventh the quality of the sod, we 

 think we can graze seven sheep to the acre advan- 

 tageously, this will prove their grounds are not 

 closely grazed. 



Kentucky's system nearer approaches England 

 in that respect, except that she raises corn in place 

 of turnips, and pays but little attention to wheat; 

 and see what care and attention is paid there to grass 

 lands. I was told by a Kentucky gentleman, that one 

 of their celebrated graziers would dismount to pick a 

 chip up off his grass. Kentucky keeps pastures for 

 winter grazing and for summer grazing — no grazing 

 is allowed in summer on the grass kept for the winter, 

 and it grows high and mats over the ground, and 

 the summer pastures are not pastured to exposure 

 to the sun, and not at all in the winter. Wet Ken- 

 tucky sods are not equal to England, because they 

 do not lay down the variety of grasses. No doubt, the 

 true principle is to lay down your grounds in grasses, 

 and keep as many of the right kind of animals as can 

 consume the grass on the grounds you design fal- 

 lowing; and either let the other grasses lay on the 

 ground or mow for winter use, and your lands will 

 improve, even under pretty rapid cultivation. The 

 grass will keep your stock in high order, and their 

 rich and abundant food will enrich your land by 

 ample and rich droppings. I am as much interested 

 in fine stock as the most of men, probably, yet I 

 advise farmers not to enter into the stock business 

 of any consequence, until prepared for it by an 

 abundance of grass, or they will inevitably fail, and 

 disappointment will ascribe the disastrous effect to 

 the wrong cause and destroy future efforts. 



You seem highly to recommend English success, 

 and Virginia's system that brought about sterility. 

 If you wish English success, you must adopt the 

 English system that accomplishes it. How would 

 the plan you seem to favor tally with English 

 management — " four hundred and fifty sheep on 

 two hundred and thirty acres of bare pasture," and 

 "six hundred sheep on two hundred and thirty 

 acres of land," bare, no doubt, too — state this as 

 you have done as a system of profit, and improve- 

 ment to land, or even to keep it from going to ruin, 

 state what you have considered the great profit 

 from it, and the energetic farmer alluded to by Mr. 

 Holcombe would laugh at Virginia's notion of im- 

 proving land, and Virginia's ideas of profit from 

 sheep. No, Mr. Editor, you may theorize until you 

 ripen the prejudice of farmers against book farm- 

 ing into rejecting it altogether, but you can not 

 bring the practical man, Avhether farmer or other 

 calling, to believe that any animal of any nature 

 can flourish, or even live on nothing to eat. You 

 may find animals enoughto Live on briars and sassa- 

 fras bushes, but put them on them or bare land, or 



even on land with not a sufficiency of grass, and in 

 due time, and that not a long one, even the killdees 

 will have to emigrate. 



Josiah W. Ware. 



Bcrrijville, June 1, 1854. 



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